212 HELOTA PAULI. 



Helota Pauli Weise. 



Deuts. entorn. Zeitscbr. 1903, Heft I, S. 171, tf und 9. 



Of this remarkable species Mr. J. Weise has published 

 (1. c.) an ample description, but an important character 

 of the (f seems to be overlooked by him, as nothing is 

 said of the spot of hair-bearing punctures on the middle 

 of the base of the metasternum, nor of the shallow groove 

 along the middle of the first ventral segment, which groove 

 is rather densely covered with hair-bearing punctures. 



Moreover the male-sex shows the following characteristics 

 not mentioned by the author: the apical ventral segment is 

 broadly truncate posteriorly '); the legs are more slender 

 and more elongate than in the 9 > ^ ne anterior femora 

 are shallowly furrowed beneath and covered on both sides 

 of the smooth furrow with minute warts or granules; the 

 anterior tibiae are slightly curved and fringed with a few 

 fulvous hairs along the inner margiu of the apical portion ; 

 the intermediate femora are flattened beneath, the flattened 

 streak bordered with minute warts; the intermediate tibiae 

 with a very minute triangular tooth at the end of the 

 underside; the posterior femora strongly curved, shallowly 

 furrowed along the underside, the sides of the furrow 

 marked with minute warts. 



As to the black markings on the elytra, nothing is said of 

 the black stripe on the apical fourth of the sutural inter- 

 stice, nor of the black border along the apical half. Finally 

 the meso- and metasternum are bordered with black at 

 the sides. 



Hah. East Africa: Usambara (Neu-Bethel). — Specimens 

 of both sexes, which vary in length from I3 l l 2 —19 mm., 

 are in the Leyden Museum. — The type-specimens, which 

 I have not seen, are from West Usambara (Kwai). 



Helota tripartita, nov. spec. 9* 

 This species seems to represent in Africa the group of 



1) In the 9 the last ventral segment is suhtruncate at the apex. 



Notes from tlie Leyden Museum, "Vol. XXV. 



